Tomasz Mrozewski

In 2003, Mark Sampson joined the flood of English as a second language teachers flocking to Asia for employment. Korea has been a particular draw for ESL teachers, renowned for generous contracts and a high quality of life. Peaking at about 22,000 foreign teachers there in 2011 with a slight decline since, the trend has seen…

In one thread of Struan Sinclair’s debut novel, Automatic World, an unidentified, amnesiac narrator has lost his identity and almost his life in a fire. We meet this character in the process of reassembling his body and mind: his sense of social reality has been set askew and he cannot make sequential sense of the world around…